Preface from the 1983 edition of Citizen 13660

Abstract

Forty-one years have passed since Pearl harbor, the United States declaration of World War II, and the evacuation and internment of more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of them American citizens. Most of the first generation and many of the second generation Nisei are deceased. All of the ten internment camps have disappeared in the remote desert and mountain areas where they were hurriedly built. The only surviving traces are pieces of concrete, pipes, and wire, and, in some of the camps, cemetery markers of the evacuees who died while in camp.